What do you mean colonies? You mean the 13 colonies?
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I would focus on how one of the empires lasted for nearly 2 millennia (if you count Byzantium as Rome), and how the other fell apart very soon after the empire’s namesake “Alexander” perished.
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Osman I, he founded the Ottoman empire
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04/12/2011
On this date, a century and a half ago, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, on an island off the coast of South Carolina. The Confederate States of America asserted not only their right to secede but also to claim federal property within their borders. The newly inaugurated U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln, rejected both claims and refused to evacuate Sumter.
“Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy,” Lincoln had said in his somber inaugural address a month earlier. “A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.”
The Civil War, to Lincoln, was never technically a “war” but an illegal and unconstitutional rebellion and a fight to put down the rebellion. The details of the events leading to the firing on Fort Sumter have much to do with this attitude and with his total rejection of the possibility of secession.
By attempting to resupply Sumter, Lincoln succeeded in forcing the Confederacy to fire the first shots. Lincoln had to accept the loss of Sumter soon after. But he was successful, so to speak, in forcing the other side to start the shooting. Lincoln believed that justified the military actions that he subsequently ordered to put down the rebellion.
were beaten and marched to a POW camp by Japanese soldiers.
The Battle of Bataan, located in the Philippines, ended with US surrender to the Japanese. The march to the POW (prisoner of war) camp is referred to as the Battan Death March.
The Battan Death March was a 65 mile march from one end of the island to the other to reach the POW camp. The Japanese marched groups of soldiers and Filipino people while beating them, starving them, and killing anyone too weak to keep up. The exact number who died on the march is unknown but estimates put it into the thousands. Those that made it to the POW camp continued to experience poor treatment leading to the death of more at the camps.
